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Henry Heyward Manigault
1849
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
Henry Heyward Manigault (1819-1869) was a nephew of William Henry Heyward. He was the second child of Anne Manigault Heyward and Major Gabriel Henry Manigault of South Carolina. The sitter has brown hair and a beard, and wears a black suit, white shirt and black bow tie. The base of an architectural column appears at the left. He would have been 30 year-old at the time this portrait was painted.
Bounetheau was active in Charleston, and a popular teacher and miniature painter.
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- Title: Henry Heyward Manigault
- Creator: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau (American, 1797-1877)
- Date Created: 1849
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau (American, 1797-1877)
- Provenance: Alice D. Barnwell, Charleston, South Carolina. Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink, Baltimore; A. J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.
- Object Type: miniatures (paintings); portraits
- Medium: watercolor on ivory
- Inscriptions: [Signed and dated] On reverse: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau - 1849 / Charleston, S.C.
- Geography: Place of Origin: Charleston
- Exhibitions: Four Centuries of Miniature Painting from the Collections of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc. and A.J. Fink, Personally. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1958-1959.
- Dimensions: H excluding frame: 5 x W: 4 in. (12.7 x 10.16 cm); Framed H: 5 3/4 x W: 4 3/4 in. (14.61 x 12.07 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of the A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in memory of Abraham Jay Fink, 1963
- Classification: Miniatures
- Accession Number: 38.486
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